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Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4561
On November 09 2014 08:38 rice_devOurer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:37 Apoteosis wrote:
Life has never lost a BO5.

he's lost like 10000 bo5/7 against taeja though oO


Life has lost one BO7 and multiples BO3, but he's never lost a BO5.
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
Hryul
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Austria2609 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4562
On November 09 2014 08:36 Dodgin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:36 liberate71 wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


Wow that was very well explained.

Gimmie a K!


E

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Dwayn
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany949 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4563
The game I'm most hyped for and it has to be kaelaris and day9... fml.
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4564
On November 09 2014 08:38 Xoronius wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:37 Big J wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:35 Garnet wrote:
wow if Life loses we're gonna have a non-Kespa finals. Well maybe MMA and Taeja are just a different level.

Startale isn't on Kespa, or did I miss something?

No, not yet. And even if they were, Life is certainly no elephant.

Life is a mammoth, he'll crush everyone
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Muffloe
Profile Joined December 2012
Sweden6061 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4565
Lifeeee, win please !
WolfintheSheep
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada14127 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4566
On November 09 2014 08:37 Cheren wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:36 liberate71 wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


Wow that was very well explained.

Gimmie a K!


it's a silly debate since most of the sc2 pros who aren't really young played BW for Kespa at some point.

debating whether the players who switched in 2010 or 2012 are better became a sport though.


The argument was always that the 2010 switchers were all the B teamers who couldn't cut it in BW, so they went for easy money against easy opponents.

Which is technically true, but the argument was also that the players that stayed in BW were genetically better, or something.
Average means I'm better than half of you.
Undead1993
Profile Joined January 2012
Germany17651 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4567
On November 09 2014 08:38 Musicus wrote:
Come on Life, I want a zerg champion for a change.

soO is the champion of our hearts
SEKO SEKO SEKO SEKO SEKO
liberate71
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia10252 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4568
On November 09 2014 08:39 Dodgin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


This is a very good post. This post should be referred to whenever someone asks a question about this topic.

The proof is in all the old LR threads(mostly gsl code a in late 2012/early/mid 2013)


I'd make it my signature if I could.
Minelord Stimfestor, also known as karma.
TiTanIum_
Profile Joined August 2011
Brazil1335 Posts
November 08 2014 23:39 GMT
#4569
On November 09 2014 08:37 NovemberstOrm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:37 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:36 Dodgin wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:36 liberate71 wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


Wow that was very well explained.

Gimmie a K!


E


ESSSSSS

TTTTTT



A!

KESTA!

Wut?
HolyArrow
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7116 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4570
On November 09 2014 08:37 Cheren wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:36 liberate71 wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


Wow that was very well explained.

Gimmie a K!


it's a silly debate since most of the sc2 pros who aren't really young played BW for Kespa at some point.

debating whether the players who switched in 2010 or 2012 are better became a sport though.


Yeah but the point was that those older sc2 pros who played BW for Kespa at some point weren't really anything special, or even were considered overall failures, and the logic of the BW elitists were that if a good SC2 player was mediocre/bad in BW, then the good BW players would absolutely dominate when they switched.
Serinox
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany5224 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4571
On November 09 2014 08:38 Wintex wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:37 Serinox wrote:
Day9 yet again for a TaeJa match? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.........

because this match requires hype, fuck analysis. it's the 2 awesome players in a cool matchup. who cares why they do what they do? we want screamers.

But Day9 just blabbers out so much meaningless fluff, about his strategy philosophy, about the art of engagements etc etc of useless filler. Day9 on the panel is just fine, but for the actual ingame casting use the other people you have please.
Deathstar
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
9150 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4572
On November 09 2014 08:39 Undead1993 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:38 Musicus wrote:
Come on Life, I want a zerg champion for a change.

soO is the champion of our hearts


soO lost to taeja. he is a failure
rip passion
KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4573
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.

Good post, thanks for explaining!

That sounds like it was fucking annoying back then.
Rain | herO | sOs | Dear | Neeb | ByuN | INnoVation | Dream | ForGG | Maru | ByuL | Golden | Solar | Soulkey | Scarlett!!!
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4574
Day9 only references 2013 things lol
Neosteel Enthusiast
Boucot
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
France15997 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4575
On November 09 2014 08:39 Apoteosis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:38 rice_devOurer wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:37 Apoteosis wrote:
Life has never lost a BO5.

he's lost like 10000 bo5/7 against taeja though oO


Life has lost one BO7 and multiples BO3, but he's never lost a BO5.

http://aligulac.com/players/3/results/?after=&before=&event=&race=ptzr&country=all&bestof=5&offline=offline&game=all&op=
Former SC2 writer for Millenium - twitter.com/Boucot
Cheren
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States2911 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4576
On November 09 2014 08:39 WolfintheSheep wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:37 Cheren wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:36 liberate71 wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.


Wow that was very well explained.

Gimmie a K!


it's a silly debate since most of the sc2 pros who aren't really young played BW for Kespa at some point.

debating whether the players who switched in 2010 or 2012 are better became a sport though.


The argument was always that the 2010 switchers were all the B teamers who couldn't cut it in BW, so they went for easy money against easy opponents.

Which is technically true, but the argument was also that the players that stayed in BW were genetically better, or something.


The B-teamers always rise up and replace the A-teamers eventually though, they would have done that regardless of whether SC2 replaced BW.
Tobblish
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden6404 Posts
November 08 2014 23:40 GMT
#4577
On November 09 2014 08:40 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Day9 only references 2013 things lol


Yeah I started to notice that as well
The curse is real
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
November 08 2014 23:41 GMT
#4578
On November 09 2014 08:40 KingofdaHipHop wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:34 HolyArrow wrote:
On November 09 2014 08:27 KtJ wrote:
can somebody explain the kespa jokes?


Basically, when Kespa players switched over from BW, there was a lot of BW elitism going around where BW fanboys would claim that the current crop of SC2 players were trash BW rejects, and thus, the actually good BW players would dominate them after switching to SC2. BW did indeed have many talented RTS players switching over, so the player pool was injected with a bunch of extremely skilled contenders, so there were many instances of recently-switched BW players taking out the old-school SC2 players in tournaments. While this was happening, we had BW elitists everywhere (presumably salty because they perceived SC2 being the main cause of BW's demise) talking shit about ESF players, citing the Elephant in the Room article, and so on. One of the things these BW elitists would do is spam KESPAAAA whenever a Kespa player would win. As a result, people now parody their ridiculousness by spamming the same thing when a Kespa player loses to one of the SC2 "old guard", or whatever you want to call them.

Good post, thanks for explaining!

That sounds like it was fucking annoying back then.

Oh god you should've been there
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Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
November 08 2014 23:41 GMT
#4579
Hey MC took a map off effort once :>
Glorious SEA doto
Hryul
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Austria2609 Posts
November 08 2014 23:41 GMT
#4580
On November 09 2014 08:40 Tobblish wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2014 08:40 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Day9 only references 2013 things lol


Yeah I started to notice that as well

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